The US astronaut Jeanette Epps has been removed from her upcoming mission to the International Space Station (ISS) just months before launch.

Dr Epps was to have been the first African-American astronaut assigned to the space station crew.

She would have flown aboard a Russian Soyuz flight in June but is being replaced by another astronaut.

Nasa has not given a reason for withdrawing her but says she will be considered for future missions.

Jeanette Epps, born in Syracuse, completed a doctorate in aerospace engineering in 2000. After graduating, she worked in a laboratory for two years before being recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

She worked as a technical intelligence officer for seven years before being selected as a member of Nasa’s 2009 astronaut class. Her time with the CIA included deployments to Iraq.

In an interview with Elle magazine last year, Dr Epps said: “I get very excited when I think about being up in space, partly because I compare it to going into a war zone.

“Both are very dangerous but, for me, it’s a no-brainer: I would rather face the dangers in space than go back to a war zone.”

She added: “When people come back from space, I see how much they want to go again.”

Dr Epps was due to launch to the orbiting outpost from Baikonur, Kazakhstan, along with the German European Space Agency (Esa) astronaut Alexander Gerst and the flight’s commander, Russian cosmonaut Sergei Prokopev.

Robbie Davidson is founder of the Flat Earth International Conference, and told Daily Star Online he wants his film Scientism Exposed 2 to make people question everything. He made the extraordinary claim that no human could ever get to the edge of the planet to find out what’s there. “Flat Earthers don’t all agree on what’s at the edge of the Earth,” he said. “But Earth has a flat edge, the Antarctic is most likely at the edge and the Arctic is in the middle.” Human’s can’t reach the edge of the planet, because it would be “too cold” for our technology to work. Robbie explained that Flat Earth unbelievers should ask themselves these key questions before watching his film:

Antarctica is the last unexplored continent on Earth. In the Antarctic Treaty of 1959 all countries backed out of exploring it, except scientists. Robbie argues that this is because Antarctica marks the edge of planet Earth.

Did the moon landings happen?

The moon is 238,900 miles from Earth. But the furthest that humans have gone from Earth in a space walk is just 400 miles. Robbie says that the moon landings were faked, so that scientists could get a picture of the “round” Earth from space.

Do ships really go “over” the horizon?One of the earliest pieces of evidence for the Earth being round was when people noticed ships disappear as they went over the horizon.But Robbie says that this was just an illusion.”If we use better technology such as zoom lenses,” he said, “we can see that the ship doesn’t disappear, it just gets smaller.”It’s just a matter of perspective. Better technology is proving that the Earth is flat.”

The horizon is always at eye level

“When you’re on a beach,” Robbie says, “the horizon is at eye level.

“When you’re on a mountain, it’s still at eye level.

“Even when you’re in a plane, the horizon is still at eye level.”

Robbie argues that there have been no conclusive experiments by scientists to prove the curvature of the Earth.

The “Chicago Skyline” photoRecently a photo went viral after it seemed to go against everything we thought we knew about the curve of the Earth.The photo was taken of the Chicago skyline from 52 miles away on the shores of Lake Michigan.Robbie said: “Every mile travelled should equal eight inches of curvature.”But in the photo, we can still see the bottom of the buildings on the seafront of Chicago from across the lake. This is impossible.”Although physicists have been quick to point out that this photo was just a mirage effect, Robbie maintains that scientists are the ones who are close-minded.

Disappearances of Ships at Sea J. W. Draper, in his “Conflict between Religion and Science,” page 160, says:

“The circular visible horizon and its dip at sea, the gradual appearance and disappearance of ships in the offing, cannot fail to incline intelligent sailors to a belief in the globular form of the earth.” The “circular visible horizon” amounts to nothing, because if we take our stand in a large square of, say, 20 miles, the visible horizon will be circular, any point in the distance being the edge of the circle of vision. If we measure off a square of 100 miles or so, the vision will be bounded by a circle, the limit of sight. So the “circular visible horizon” may at once be dismissed. But “its dip at sea” is just what has never been seen. It is the very thing that requires to be seen to establish the globular theory; it is the very thing that never has been seen. Wherever we look at sea, the water extends in one straight line, as far as the eye can reach. A flat surface is always seen, and ships are seen at distances altogether out of proportion to the allowance to be made for convexity, if the surface were a convex one. When a ship or any other object recedes from the observer on a level surface the highest part is always seen last by reason of perspective. So that the masts and sails of a receding vessel on a flat surface should be seen long after the hull has become invisible to the naked eye. Besides this law of perspective, the hull of a vessel is generally of a dark colour, and often at a very short distance disappears to the naked eye, because it has lost its individuality in the mass of surrounding water, both hull and water being nearly of the same colour. It appears to have mingled with the water, and is thus lost to sight. The hull has no background whatever, but the masts and sails have a splendid background against the sky, and stand out to advantage, and are, for this reason also, seen long after the hull has vanished. But that the hull has not “gone down behind a hill of water”—that it is not because of the globular surface of the water that it is invisible—has been proved by the writer many times.

Winship, Thomas. Zetetic Cosmogony: Or Conclusive Evidence that the World is not a Rotating Revolving Globe but a Stationary Plane Circle (p. 25). Ravenio Books. Kindle Edition.

Winship, Thomas. Zetetic Cosmogony: Or Conclusive Evidence that the World is not a Rotating Revolving Globe but a Stationary Plane Circle (p. 25). Ravenio Books. Kindle Edition.

Winship, Thomas. Zetetic Cosmogony: Or Conclusive Evidence that the World is not a Rotating Revolving Globe but a Stationary Plane Circle (pp. 24-25). Ravenio Books. Kindle Edition.

Winship, Thomas. Zetetic Cosmogony: Or Conclusive Evidence that the World is not a Rotating Revolving Globe but a Stationary Plane Circle (p. 24). Ravenio Books. Kindle Edition.

If you’re like most people, you are probably shocked by such a strange and absurd assertion. Gravity is so well an established fact, that no teacher in any classroom worldwide would dare question it. However, when gravity is brought under the light of close scrutiny, its scientific postulation comes up lacking. The name gravity is derived from the Latin word “ gravis,” which means “ heavy,”or “ having weight.” While the Law of Gravitation is defined as: “ That mutual action between masses of matter by virtue of which every such mass tends toward every other, you will find that this is more an assumption than an established fact.

Furthermore, this magnetic-like attraction between massive objects has been found nowhere in the natural world. There is no example in nature of a massive sphere or any other shaped-object which by virtue of its mass alone causes smaller objects to stick to or orbit around it!

There is nothing on Earth massive enough that it can be shown to cause even a dust-bunny to stick to or orbit around it! Try spinning a wet tennis ball or any other spherical object with smaller things placed on its surface and you will find that everything falls or flies off, and nothing sticks to or orbits it.

To claim the existence of a physical “law” without a single practical evidential example is hearsay, not science. ~ Eric Dubay

The following are some theories that have never been proven true

You came from an explosion in the universe some 10 billion years ago.

Your body was formed from star dusk.

You are small and insignificant among billions of stars, planets and species.

Gravity formed all planets into perfect spheres

You came out of the ocean as a fish but became a monkey.

Contrary to popular belief, Hermeticism, Neoplatonic mysticism and natural magic had a remarkable influence on the Scientific Revolution, which began in the Renaissance period. The Scientific Revolution embraced empiricism, reason and open inquiry over faith, mysticism, or dogma. Ironically, the Renaissance saw a resurgence of Hermetic ideas, as well as in mythical, metaphorical and magical ways of thinking.

Indeed, the fathers of the modern science and the scientific method were deeply religious and many were alchemists and esotericists, traditions rooted in Hermeticism. Hermetic principles can be seen in the works of luminaries such as Nicolaus Copernicus, Johannes Kepler, Robert Boyle, Isaac Newton and Francis Bacon, as well as medieval philosophers, notably Roger Bacon, but also Islamic philosophers like Al-Kindi and Avicenna.

Copernicus, who presented the first predictive mathematic model for a heliocentric system, describes the sun:

In the middle of all sits the Sun enthroned. In this most beautiful temple could we place this luminary in any better position from which he can illuminate the whole at once? He is rightly called the Lamp, the Mind, the Ruler of the Universe; Hermes Trismegistus names him the Visible God, Sophocles’ Electra calls him the All-seeing. So the Sun sits as upon a royal throne ruling his children the planets which circle around him.

Isaac Newton, the father of modern physics, spent most of his time rediscovering the occult wisdom of the ancients, including the Corpus Hermetical and the Emerald Tablet. He was a devout scholar and practitioner of alchemy, which greatly influenced his scientific work, including the laws of motion, the theory of gravity, his work on optics and the invention of calculus.

Towering thinker Sir Isaac Newton carved a now-barely visible doodle of a windmill into a stone wall in his childhood home, according to a news release from the National Trust.

The drawing was discovered at Woolsthorpe Manor, the Lincolnshire, England,home where Newton was born in 1642, said the National Trust,which protects the house and other heritage sites in the United Kingdom.

A NASA researcher has released video evidence proving that the International Space Station (ISS) is actually filmed in a studio on earth, and not in space.

The video vindicates conspiracy theorists who claim that NASA routinely trick the public into thinking that astronauts are floating in space due to lack of gravity.

The researcher says that NASA has created the myth of zero gravity by hanging astronauts from wires inside an earthbound stationary plane.

The video also claims that ‘spacewalks’ are actually filmed inside a huge swimming pool. According to the narrator of the video:

“the ISS is a hoax and all manned space travel is a hoax.”

“Inside (the ISS) there are a couple of zero gravity tricks that they use to fake it.””The first is they have a complete mock-up built inside an airplane.”

“The airplane does a bunch of rise and falls it does an upside parabolic trajectory and that simulates zero gravity.”

Express.co.uk reports: “The other main way they simulate the zero gravity is with suspension in front of a blue screen and they use that trick for extended periods of time, for longer than 45 seconds segments, but they can’t move around as much, they can’t do the acrobatic flips and rolls in the extended mode.

“So, there is full motion, where they can fully move around, and that is faked in plane, and then there is suspended or extended mode, where they are suspended by wires in front of a blue screen.

“They don’t move around as much, but they can make the scene last a longer amount of time.”

He then claims to have rumbled retired astronaut Chris Hadfield, 58, who was the first Canadian to walk in space and was previously a commander of the ISS, inadvertently showing the clips of his wires on camera.

He said: “In this scene Chris Hadfield bends down in order to adjust something and you can see on the back of his shirt a couple of upticks on either side where you expect wires to come in on either side of that harness in order to support it.

“Of course they have computer graphiced (Sic) out the supporting wires so you can’t actually see them.”

The narrator is not alone.

Like a downgraded moon landings hoax theory, some so-called truth seekers, claim space travel is not possible, and NASA is fooling the world with its daily updates about astronauts’ activities on the space craft.

Yesterday, Express.co.uk revealed how Scott C Waring, who has previously relied on NASA live streams filmed from the ISS in a bid to prove aliens exist, appears to be curious about the theory.

In a recent post on his website he flirted with the ISS conspiracy theory.

He wrote: “This video was taken back in 2016, but take a close look at the door and you will see that this hatch on the space station is made of a flimsy plastic or tent-like material.

“The door is not air tight, nor is it a real hatch.

“The maker of the video states that this indicates that the space station is actually not really in space, but all just an elaborate act.

“I’m still looking at it, but just can’t imagine how the hell this hatch is suppose to keep space out and air inside. This is truly bewildering.”

In truth, there is, of course, lots of evidence that the ISS is in space. Its live stream has produced amazing images of the earth, including storms developing and the Northern Lights in spectacular detail.

It is also visible from the earth as it orbits us at certain times.

NASA has filmed several rocket launches that have then gone on to dock with the ISS to restock it with cargo.

It is used by space agencies across the globe, which all deny that it is anywhere but orbiting Earth.